Lise Camoin

Textile artist, designer, and dyer based in Lauris in the Luberon, Lise Camoin has been exploring plant-based dyes for over fifteen years, a practice she also shares through the cooperative Scop Couleur Garance.

After studying history at the University of Avignon, she trained for three years as a decorative painter, where she developed a strong command of color harmony. Her discovery of natural dyeing in 2010 marked a turning point: she found in it a personal field of research where nature and color became inseparable. More recently, she has been exploring new possibilities using bio-based materials. Deeply sensitive to the natural world, she channels a sense of eco-anxiety into an artistic language that offers her reassurance. Inspired by traditional craft techniques, her practice becomes a contemporary language in its own right.

She has presented her work at Paris Design Week (2020, 2021) and in the Quercus Suber competition at Villa Noailles (2023).

Her current research project, Arundo donax, highlights the giant reed, a Mediterranean plant she harvests from a former family garden. She works with its leaves, transforming them – after a long preparation process – into a semi-flexible textile that lies between basketry and weaving. Her work follows the material’s own structural logic, with fibers freely interlacing, shifting in volume, density, and form. Each piece becomes the trace of a singular gesture shaped by an entire ecosystem: herself, the plant, its soil, her garden, the South. With delicacy and sustainability, this textile can take the form of wall pieces, suspended works, or be integrated into object design.

Website: Lisecamoin.com